Knowing Rob Us
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Knowing Robs Us Author(s): Chinua Achebe Source: Callaloo, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Winter, 1990), p. 78 Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2931608 . Accessed: 20/10/2011 15:04 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. The Johns Hopkins University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Callaloo. http://www.jstor.org
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Knowing Robs UsAuthor(s): Chinua AchebeSource: Callaloo, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Winter, 1990), p. 78Published by: The Johns Hopkins University PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2931608 .Accessed: 20/10/2011 15:04
Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at .http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range ofcontent in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new formsof scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected].
The Johns Hopkins University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access toCallaloo.
http://www.jstor.org
Knowing Robs Us
Knowing robs us of wonder. Had it not ripped apart the fearful robes of primordial Night to steal the force that crafted horns on doghead and sowed insurrection overnight in the homely beak of a hen; had reason not given us assurance that day will daily break and the sun's array return to disarm night's fantastic figurations- each daybreak would be garlanded at the city gate and escorted with royal drums to a stupendous festival of an amazed world.
One day after the peril of an April storm ecstatic birds followed its furrows sowing songs of daybreak though the time was well past noon, their sparkling notes sprouting green incantations everywhere to free the world from brown death.
But for me it is only make-believe; the clamorous change of season may only darken the hills of Nsukka for an hour or two when it comes - no hurricane hits my sky and no song of deliverance.
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